The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

OK, but not great. Started well - the mystery and suspense was gradually increased and the plot promised much. However, the director then started to overdo the scares. The story got more confusing and nonsensical, and simply degenerated into scare-a-minute stuff.I never find Martin Donovan's acting convincing and this movie reinforced that view. Virginia Madsen's performance was good, however. Kyle Gallner did a reasonable job as the haunted kid.

This movie started out with the child of this couple moving to Connecticut in order to be closer to the treatment center for the cancer that their son is going through. It costs the family every cent. I actually know how this is. So I can relate to these characters big time. They did a very good job in portraying the stress that their characters are going through. I thought the movie had a really good concept, about how malevolent spirits can be seen by individuals who are close to their deaths. Now keep in mind this is a true story folks. This families child seen ghosts of the dead, that had once occupied, or are still occupying, that house. I thought it was completely nuts how the whole house was bodies placed into the walls. Just sitting there, preserved by some freak who believed all this black magic mumbo-jumbo. Can you imagine that? Being a family and having hundreds of dead corpses lain into the walls of your home; sleeping among them even, every night without knowing it. HELL WITH THAT I SAY! That made me cringe, because I looked at the walls in the place I'm at for a few seconds after. I was thinking, "what if there's some weird sh*t in these walls like that?" It's just one of those things in movies that makes you think of it for awhile after. The movie did a wonderful job telling the story of this family, and the frightening sh*t they had to go through, supernaturally and medically, in order to make it through. The last fact that's displayed about the child suffering from cancer is so unbelievable. It actually makes you think. Does this stuff really exist. I mean, the corpses part is believable, there's some weird sh*t in this world. Supernatural healing though? That's a coin-toss. I would actually hope so in fact. Actually, I pray there is. Then this truly isn't the only life. I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone who likes true haunting, and supernatural miracles. This movie also makes you think about things a lot afterwords.

I was expecting more from this movie.. I thought I just watched it wrong from seeing the 5-star reviews but luckily I found someone who felt the same.. The scares were sooooo abrupt and random that I felt that they were overdoing it. At some point, they were trying to scare you every moment but failed! I felt like they were employing a lot of themes in the latter half because of a lot of random happenings and becoming desperate at it! Kept me less interested beginning from 2/4 in the movie. I was disappointed, bored, and didn't feel any connection with the characters and the story.. There was no scare factor here for me bec. there was nothing new with the scares at all! I knew early on in the movie that this wasn't gonna be good. Acting was okay.. There was the part that the mother saw the chairs and his son and didn't react according to the urgency of the situation. I wouldn't rewatch as of now and give this a chance. I saw this with somebody and I wasn't using my headset but I did pay attention but still didn't feel it. The Human Centipede was the first one that I watched that night so I was hoping this to be better but both were okay and this one disappointing.. HC was better tho.. I was expecting this to be scarier since the title was promising and it seemed to be based off a true story. I picked this one for us to watch and... very disappointing.*Watched on Thurs., 12/03

This is a mediocre haunted house/demon possession film. It does have some good jump scares and the ghoul effects are well done. However, it suffers from the same haunted house cliché that many others in this type of genre have succumbed to: once the residents of the house figure out something is really wrong, instead of showing their backside to the house on their way out of town, they stay.This is no more evident than in this film. They are renting the house, in fact they got the first month free. There's no reason to stay. Strange stuff is going on, the entire family is freaked out, their son with cancer is obviously suffering from a mental breakdown, and their answer is to call some type of exorcist/paranormal investigator to see if he can get rid of the ghosts in a house that's not even theirs. Why even bother?Sorry but that killed the film for me. Obviously if they did leave, we wouldn't have a movie, but since this is "based on a true story", whoever the people the story is based on must be the biggest idiots in the world.